DAKAR: Senegal's military said on Saturday it had intercepted a boat carrying more than 200 migrants trying to reach Europe, after nearly 90 people died earlier this month trying to make the perilous Atlantic crossing. The boat, which was intercepted by a patrol boat in fishing waters near Lompole in northwestern Senegal on Friday, was carrying 202 people, including five women and a minor, the army posted on X. The boat, which left Senegal in early July, was carrying about 170 people. 90 people have died after drowning on the coast of Mauritania.
